Although the lockdown drags on in Melbourne, the French community keeps its spirits up and its various projects moving forward. On the 8th of October, we organised a virtual meeting…

New Caledonia has voted against independence from France in the second of three possible independence referendums. On the 4th of October, more than 53% of voters chose to remain in…

A great initiative by Victorian Senator David Van, the Consular Corps of Melbourne was happy to virtually gather together on the 25th of September to exchange with the Hon. Alex…

While Melbournians are under curfew, French people go out and about to enjoy the Tour de France… The French Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry [FACCI] transformed its traditional  Tour…

Due to Covid 19, the Fromelles service with the Friends of the 15th Brigade traditionnally held at the Cobbers Statue was not able to be held this year… The Shrine…

What a year 2020 is proving to be! Who could have guessed it? One year ago, we were in full celebration mode of the Bastille day French Festival at Fed…

The diplomatic activities have changed during the lockdown. If receptions and networking cocktails have ceased, the missions of consular guidance and assistance have increased tenfold! The Consular Corps in Victoria…

Here they were in the early hours of the morning, 76 years ago, some one hundred and thirty five thousand young men squeezed on thousands of naval ships, waiting for…

A gentleman is gone… Mr Patrick Simon, the Mayor of Villers-Bretonneux, victim of Covid 19… H.E. Brendan Berne, the Australian ambassador in France, called him Australia’s Best Friend, and indeed…

On Saturday 4 April, a plane from Qatar Airways chartered by the French Republic took off from Melbourne with almost 300 French Nationals on board who had been stranded in…